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Hey, I resemble that remark!

Bloom’s long bucolic sneer seems to have invited national interest along with Iowan indignation. Some have even gone line-by-line. Others hope to capitalize on the fury. The best of course is this from Iowahawk.

Cow chipping away at the story, we may want to remember that many of those stereotypical outdated Midwestern morals may have more to do with the next American President than you can dip in butter and put on a stick.

You’re A Good Man, Barack Obama: Afghanistan War Meets Peanuts

via Gawker.com

Who says A Charlie Brown Christmas and Barack Obama’s address on Afghanistan can’t make beautiful policy together? In fact, who better than Charlie Brown, undertrodden everyman, to articulate the frustrations of a confused and embattled nation? I think we’ve got ourselves a new holiday tradition, kids. And a round of applause, please, to Gawker video intern Rose Annis, who, at our request, took the much-beloved Christmas special - which was preempted so that ABC could air the President’s West Point address - and made herself an awesome mashup. Not just anyone can get an assignment like “splice together Peanuts and the deployment of thirty thousand troops” and create a Christmas miracle.

Brilliant mash-up of peanuts and politics.  All that is missing is the muted trombone: “Fwa fwa, fwa fwa fwa fwa.”

Here’s the link to the video.